Israeli air strike kills four militants in Gaza: medics
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinian militants and injured two others in the northern Gaza Strip, the Islamist group Hamas and medics said on Saturday.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said a missile was fired at a group of militants spotted approaching Israel's border fence with the coastal territory. She said the militants had planned to fire rockets into Israel.
(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Joseph Nasr; editing by Richard Meares)
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